Cyclosporin whole blood immunoassays (AxSYM, CEDIA, and Emit): A critical overview of performance characteristics and comparison with HPLC

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2158-2164

  Schütz, Ekkehard ^a   Svinarov, Dobrin ^b   Shipkova, Maria ^a   Niedmann, Paul Dieter ^a   Armstrong, Victor W ^a   Wieland, Eberhard ^a   Oellerich, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG MONITORING; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; RECIPIENT; TRANSPLANTATION;

GLOMERULUS;

EID: 0031712056     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/44.10.2158     Document Type: Article

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